Jim Stilley, CEO of Northwest Michigan Surgery Center in Traverse City, Mich., discusses how his ASC calculates and breaks down length of stay to determine how the center is performing.
G. Keith Smith, MD, founder of the Surgery Center of Oklahoma, recently wrote about the impact of the overturn of the Affordable Care Act in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons.
Every surgery center keeps track of their statistics and has access to data from other centers, compiled either by an outside source or their management company. However, without a proper understanding of what the data is telling them, it's difficult…
Michael J. Musacchio, Jr., MD, and John H. Peloza, MD, opened their ambulatory surgery center, Institute for Minimally Invasive Surgery, last October with a vision of incorporating emerging technologies that would rival any hospital operating room. This vision included the…
Chance Sherer, manager with VMG Health, discusses "must-have" benchmarks that every surgery center should use to track their progress.
Increasing pressures in the outpatient surgery setting — ranging from regulations and quality measures to issues surrounding payors and reimbursement — can make physicians feel less engaged in the practice of medicine, according to Bob Uslander, MD, an entrepreneur and…
Measurable benchmarks are crucial to running a successful surgery center. The most successful surgery centers track clinical, financial and efficiency-focused data. Administrators can track data from one month to the next to identify and project growth. They can also compare…
Here are 66 CEOs of ambulatory surgery center management and development companies. The CEOs on this list work tirelessly to improve surgery center efficiencies, build strong physician relationships and boost profitability for their partnered centers. CEOs do not and cannot…
In a session at the Becker’s Hospital Review annual meeting in Chicago on May 18, three C-suite executives for Westchester, Ill.-based Regent Surgical Health, CEO Tom Mallon, Chief Development Officer Jeff Simmons and COO Nap Gary discussed ASC and physician-hospital…
Ambulatory surgery centers may turn to outsourcing as a cost-cutting strategy, but experts caution that it is important to ask the right questions of potential vendors to avoid incurring unexpected fees and costs down the line.